it is much safer than alcohol‚ and legalizing it could be really helpful for most people. Making marijuana legal would help improve our economy‚ could be used for medicinal purposes‚ and it could even help decrease violence. Legalizing marijuana would help improve our economy‚ no questions asked. The government would be able to tax it and make lots of money. The economy is in a very bad state right now; the US owes so much money to China and our government should really step up. They could take
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Kornilov brought back the Bolshevicks on the scene of the Russian Revolution. The picture of Kornilov‚ shows him in front of his army ready to attack Petrograde as the photograph was taken in summer 1917. He looks determined but his army looks small and quite weak compared to the Bolshevik’s troops and the Kerensky’s troops. The fact that the Bolsheviks helped Kerensky only restored the Bolsheviks as patriots in the eyes of the Russians and enabled them to continue their plan to seize power. This
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Did the British Empire improve people’s lives in Africa? I will start off by defining the terms of this essay. ‘Improve’‚ in this context‚ means the African people’s lives developing and the standard of living getting better. The British Empire in Africa was vast. It included lands in North Africa‚ such as Egypt‚ much of West Africa‚ and huge territories in Southern and East Africa. British rule had a huge impact on the lives of millions of Africans. Before the British rule in Africa‚ African
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These trends saw the beginning of the feminist revolutionary movement that sought to bring about justice and equality for all women. The Great War demanded extensive participation by women in the labour market to release men to the fighting front. In 1914‚ feminist Carrie Chapman Catt warned that "war falls on the women most heavily‚ and more so now than ever before." Jobs were being lost more quickly than they were being replaced however which resulted in an extensive gap in employment and‚ as a means
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1. Why Did International Tension Increase In Europe In The Period 1912 To The Assassination Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914? One of the reasons why international tension increased in Europe in the period 1912 to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1912 was because the Balkan States were fed up of being owned by the Ottomans‚ so Serbia‚ Greece‚ Bulgaria‚ and Montenegro came together and formed the Balkan League and decided to attack them. This was the first Balkan War.
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England: 1815-1914 The period of time from 1815 through 1914 is commonly referred to as the Hundred Years Peace. Begining at the end of the Napoleonic Wars at Waterloo in 1815‚ and until the outbreak of war in 1914‚ the contries in Europe were mostly at peace with one another. Wellington ’s land victory at Waterloo in 1815‚ marked the end of wars for almost a century in Europe. Britain was the dominant power‚ and the defeat of Napoleon broke the French ’s will to rule the world as they had done
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Changing the economy in various ways‚ such as Industrialization and Immigration can affect the country in either good or bad ways. Back in the late 1800’s‚ the economy and the country was very different than it is known to be today. Westward expansion‚ industrialization‚ presidents and their decisions‚ immigration‚ and W.W.I are some events that have occurred to have changed the economy. Woodrow Wilson passed many laws such as the Clayton Antitrust Act‚ Federal Trade Commission Act‚ Federal Reserve
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The Battle of Gumbinnen‚ 1914. This battle was initiated by the German eighth army at Stalluponen on 17 August 1914. The eighth armys commander was General von Prittwitz. He was encouraged by the leader of the I corps Hermann von Francois to press ahead with the assult against the Russian first army under Rennenkampf at Gumbinnen. Prittwitz was aware that General Samsonovs Russian second army was making its way towards the south he decided to take them on at the first avaliable opporotunity. The
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In the early 1900’s‚ the Russian Revolution occurred. There were many causes for the revolution‚ including the government and the things people needed. This revolution affected Russia and led to change. Although some changes were helpful‚ some of them did not resolve the initial problems that caused the Russian Revolution. Many things caused the Russian Revolution. A few causes were the tactics the Czar‚ Nicholas II‚ used to suppress reform. He sought to industrialize the country and build the
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To what extent did Canada play a significant role in Cold War events? Use examples from the period 1945–1990. The twentieth century was a time for bloody warfare‚ advances in technology‚ and trends that revolutionized the world. It was also an era in which new political ideologies rose and fell. Of the new types of political philosophies‚ the two that were most opposite to each other were democracy and communism. From 1945-1990 these two philosophies shaped and changed the world‚ and was the
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